My DS5 is prone to early wakes. Cant fix it.
however what is really challenging is his behaviour when waking early as he is obviously tired when he wakes up.
he immediately jumps out of bed and runs through to us. Wants the tv on but I say no tv until 6am.
his choices are to lie quietly in our bed or play quietly in his own room. He won’t do either. I offer to chat to him or read a book in our bed but he doesn’t want to do that he wants to jump on our bed / on us / off the bed (at 5am!!). He doesn’t want to play quietly in his room he wants to be noisy and wake us get reaction.
ignore him is what people say. This doesn’t work with my child - the behaviour gets more and more wild until we just can’t ignore him.
Im Just unclear what I should do with him at that time in the morning - any suggestions?